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Tide to Go Instant Stain Remover has joined Shout Wipes Plus Stain Treater Towelettes and Janie Dry Stick Spot Cleaner in the lineup of clean-on-the-run products. All aim to clean clothes while you're wearing them, providing help in an "oops" moment. Unfortunately, they worked well on very few stains.
How they work. With Tide to Go, you rub the pen's tip gently across a stain, which leaves your clothes damp.
You unfold the Shout towelette and apply it to a stain, from edges to center. It foams and leaves your clothes quite wet.
With Janie, you rub the dry, chalklike stick on a stain to absorb it, then wait 3 minutes and brush away leftover powder.
Tide and Shout say they're safe on most colorfast washable or dry-cleanable fabrics; Janie, on any fabric and color.
How we tested. We took the five stains on which Tide says it "works well" (tomato juice, ketchup, barbecue sauce, grape juice, and coffee) and placed them on five fabrics (cotton, polyester/ cotton, silk, silky polyester, and wool). Because your stains may not be ...